Diabetes

[marini martini]

I could go on a rant using the post above as a metaphor for Western Civilisation and its dependence on energy, but I won't because no-one cares and I'm in a good mood.

Good luck with managing your diabetes to all who have it. Eating well and exercising becomes "normal" after a while.

Thanks Ruff, that must have taken alot of restraint on your demarbelized hiney Good criking job

[RuffnReadyOzStyle]

Thanks Ruff, that must have taken alot of restraint on your demarbelized hiney Good criking job

yerself.

I went out schmoozing tonight and realised that sitting at home watching TV and getting ain't so bad after all...

[marini martini]

yerself.

I went out schmoozing tonight and realised that sitting at home watching TV and getting ain't so bad after all...

So it's like.......health food and heroin, for you?

[RuffnReadyOzStyle]

Health food and natural highs, babeh...

I went to a "networking" night - tails, meet other young professionals, blah, blah, blah. It was all nice enough but I realised that it's just not me. I just need to run into the woman the universe has in store for me, I know she's out there somewhere, but schmoozing is not where I'll find her. So I had a few more drinks, got me on some herbal high, and I now I'm all mellow... forcing things never gets you anywhere.

I hope some small part of that made sense.

This is worse than drunk dialing!

And Kori's post number 55,555 - that in iteself is a high of the greatest order. I'm grinning from ear to ear, 'cause they (and we) built something real here.

[Los Spurs]

I just got back from lunch and found out 2 of my co-workers were diagnosed with type II diabetes and high blood pressure. What amazes me though is that neither one of us is heavy set but we still have to watch what we eat and take medicine.
Then I see other people who are a little larger then us and seem to be happy with themselves. And that's when I wonder what's wrong with this damn picture...

[boutons_]

"what's wrong with this damn picture"

This: when you eat Standard American Diet, but not enough to become overweight/obese, it's still ty food, that will make you sick, sooner or later. Excess weight isn't the only cause of TII. While going on a super low-carb/alkaline diet to take the metabolic pressure off your glucose metabolism, you have to allow your body to regain its sensitivity to insulin (insulin is really nasty stuff. The less your body needs, the better).

Google for "inflammation diabetes". You can suffer from chronic, low-grade inflammation, worsened by crap food-like substances, which de-sensitizes your body to insulin. Arterial inflammation that brings on atherosclerosis. Carbs are converted to glucose which needs insulin to be metabolized. Excess glucose gets converted, more stress on your body, to lipids/tryglycerides, ie, fat. Excess fat produces over 20 hormones, like leptin, many of which are inflammatory. It's vicious circle.

What's good with this picture is that if you stop eating S.A.D. , replaced with the good stuff, the body, much smarter than we are, will respond quite quickly, within days, a few weeks, and right itself.

You can help the correction with natural supplements like ginger, cinnamon, beta sitosterol, l-isoluceine, powdered egg white, but the foundation is fixing your diet, and daily aerobic exercise of at least 30 minutes, which also increases insulin sensitivity and reduces inflammation. Don't believe me. ALL of these tactics have been recommended by many orgs and people for years.

[boutons_]

You popping any happy pills? bad idea for TII:

http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releas...-alb032508.php

[boutons_]

Diabetes Prevented Most Effectively with Combination of Aerobic Exercise, Weight Training

http://www.naturalnews.com/022877.html

... as well as prevention, it's also therapeutic.

[Los Spurs]

Thanks for all the info. It's been real hard for me to deal with this illness but I'm taking it one day at a time...

[boutons_]

I am not a doctor, but if you take some of the things I listed, like raw foods/paleo/caveman diet and intense, daily aerobic exercise, the supplements, and google them yourself, and "sell" them to yourself, I think you'll put your body and metabolism in the best possible position to kick some diabetes butt.

If you are on prescribed meds, take them, but don't count on them to be sufficient, and go on your merry, unreformed diet and lifestyle. And google the drugs' side effects, they ALL have side effects. They're finding more side effects continuously (wonderful findings like HRT initiating breast cancer, and then, after initial treatment, for years afterwards, increasing the chances of recurrence.).

[marini martini]

My favorite way of eating baked potatoe, is loading it up with picadillo, especially at Bill Millers very yummy & good for you

[Los Spurs]

My favorite way of eating baked potatoe, is loading it up with picadillo, especially at Bill Millers very yummy & good for you

I didn't know Bill Miller's served picadillo

[boutons_]

It's been known for a while that Bitter Melon in extract form helps with diabetes, as does nopal cactus.

Here's a recent report on Bitter Melon and diabetes.


http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases...0327091255.htm

I suggest you discuss with your diabetes doc before take a lot of different stuff. Interactions can be dangerous and/or cancelling, even with natural products.